Basically $100/hour is a nice round number that seems to be roughly in line with the market for line of business application programming on a consulting basis.

Basically $100/hour is a nice round number that seems to be roughly in line with the market for line of business application programming on a consulting basis. More specialized programming that requires particular problem domain expertise can command much higher rates, basically inversely correlated with the number of other devs who are able to do it.